Jeff's Jots

What would make a person deliberately do their job badly? I'm not talking about goofing off type of things. Taking an extra fifteen minutes for lunch, surfing the internet instead of working, that sort of thing. A lot of people do those things, it's accepted up to a point. I'm talking about someone... Sign in to see full entry.

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I don't know what it is, but for some reason we can't seem to help bashing rich people, even in the midst of praising them. I was looking up some information on Donald Trump and I came across a brief biography on askmen.com. The biography was mostly very laudatory. It talked about how Trump's... Sign in to see full entry.

Something is screwy in the state of blogit. When I signed on just now, my total earnings read $9.87. Yesterday they were $8.46. So presumably I made $1.41 yesterday. The reason that's screwy is that my previous record was 18 cents for one day. And I didn't blog much yesterday, only an entry for... Sign in to see full entry.

Charles Emerson Winchester J.R. Ewing Robin Colcort Thurston Howell Milburn Drysdale. Blake Carrington. What do these people have in common? They were all characters on popular TV shows. They were all wealthy.They all have pretentious sounding names. And they were all portrayed as greedy, shallow,... Sign in to see full entry.

Sometimes people who run businesses are kind of stupid. My girlfriend and I went out to dinner this evening. As we often do, we brought our own sodas to save a little money. We enjoy going out to eat, and by bringing our own sodas, we can afford to do it more often. This restaurant is a place we eat... Sign in to see full entry.

Homeownership. The American Dream. One's own place. A place to do with as you please, no landlord looking over your shoulder. No sharing walls with the person in the next apartment. No thank you. Not for me. I love being a renter. No lawn to mow. No driveway to shovel. No walls I have to paint.... Sign in to see full entry.

Now this is confusing. Jeff's Jot's jumped 30 places in the rankings this morning, but I got no new comments. So it sounds like I'm getting a lot of people reading my stuff but not commenting on it. Several possibilities occur. One is that my stuff is so boring, it isn't worth commenting on. I don't... Sign in to see full entry.

If you want to get rich, the most important thing is to do what you love to do. Donald Trump said that on Oprah today. When Donald Trump talks about money, I listen. The Donald isn't the first to say that of course. What matters is that Trump is one of the most successful people in the world,... Sign in to see full entry.